Distance doesn’t have to break contact when someone is incarcerated. A physical letter is still one of the most reliable ways to reach an inmate, prisoner, detainee, or anyone in custody because it arrives as something real—paper mail they can keep and reread.
A concrete example: from a beach in Thailand to a prison in the USA.
Imagine you’re on holiday in Thailand, sitting on the beach with your phone, and you want to write to someone held in the United States. You can type the letter right there—while you’re traveling, in a different time zone, far from a printer, and with no idea where you’d even buy stamps. The message is easy. The mailing is the problem.
International prison mail fails on small details.
When you send to any country, the delivery depends on accuracy. The recipient’s full legal name, their inmate/prisoner ID or booking number (if applicable), the facility name, and the complete address all need to match what the institution expects. If the details are wrong or incomplete, the letter may be delayed or stopped.
Write online, still send a real physical letter.
If you want to avoid printing, envelopes, stamps, and postage—especially while traveling—inlettia offers a practical workflow. You write your letter online from wherever you are, and inlettia prints it, prepares the envelope, applies postage, and mails it through postal mail to detention and prison facilities worldwide. The recipient still receives a physical letter, even though you wrote it digitally.
Why this matters when you’re traveling.
The advantage is that your location stops being a limitation. Whether you’re writing from the beach in Thailand to a prisoner in the USA, from Europe to Asia, or from anywhere to any country, the process stays consistent on your side: internet connection, a device, and the recipient details.
To write online and send a physical letter worldwide using inlettia, start here: https://inlettia.com/write-send-letter/
